Abstract
Recent advances in bronchoscopy consist of new equipment, methods of anesthesia and therapeutic procedures. Outstanding in new equipment are the combined distally and proximally illuminated bronchoscopes, new biopsy forceps, retrograde bronchoscopic telescopes for upper lobe examination, smaller infant bronchoscopes for examining the bronchi of the newborn, and equipment for bronchoscopic cinematography. In anesthesia the use of curare has proved of great assistance in certain difficult cases. The elimination of the laryngoscope in the standard bronchoscopic procedure further facilitates bronchoscopic technic. Therapeutically the use of the sulfa drugs and penicillin intrabronchially has proved of great value and has opened a new field for research. The use of a standard terminology such as that recently suggested by Jackson to correlate the segmental divisions of the lung with their respective branch bronchi has been of great assistance in discussions between surgeons, internists and bronchoscopists.
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